Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

American College of Radiology names its 2020 Gold Medalists, honorary fellows

The ACR—which represents 39,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists and medical physicists—said it plans to honor winners at its annual meeting next May in Washington, D.C. 

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Sexual harassment in healthcare: How radiologists can make a difference

What can radiologists do to be better allies for individuals experiencing inappropriate behavior in the workplace? A recent commentary published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology explored this very subject in detail.

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Should radiologists wear a white coat?

Patients have been identifying physicians by their white coats for many years now, but is such a uniform really necessary in radiology?

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Performance Reviews in Healthcare: The Good, the Bad and the Continuously Improving

The right time for an appraisal is any time an employer—or an employee—feels communication on performance is necessary and appropriate.

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15 Ways to Minimize Support-Staff Turnover

The average cost to replace a departing employee is six to nine months of the individual’s salary. Fortunately, there are plenty of tried, tested and even innovative ways to prevent a revolving door from spinning so fast that it blows a big hole in the bottom line.

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Radiologist Burnout: Are We Done Yet?

Some observers suggest that one physician’s self-reported burnout is another’s normal work fatigue. But nearly all the experts agree that such variability is no excuse for simply dismissing the phenomenon.

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RADPAC names new board members

RADPAC—the American College of Radiology Association’s bipartisan political action committee—has announced a new slate of board members whose terms will start Dec. 1.

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RSNA picks leader of effort to create comprehensive database of radiology case examples

The Radiological Society of North America announced this week that it has selected an editor to guide its creation of the “first-of-its-kind” Case Collection of clinical examples for the profession.